Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower's answer was direct. The Federal Government would work firmly and patiently through the courts to enforce the desegregation ruling of the Supreme Court. There could be no backing away from this position. Therefore there could not be, and there was not, any agreement, implied or stated, to delay integration in Little Rock. For his part, Orval Faubus did not promise to remove the National Guard from Little Rock's Central High School and permit Negro children to enter. But there was a general understanding that some time this week Faubus would begin withdrawing the Guard...
...tide themselves over the period of economic adjustment." Crushed by Russian tanks, the Hungarians were unable to take advantage of the U.S. offer. But the Poles, determinedly establishing themselves as the freest of Russia's satellites, could and did. To Washington came an economic delegation that negotiated an agreement for $95 million worth of U.S. aid and went home with the possibility of receiving even more. In addition, the U.S. eased restrictions on the shipment of strategic goods to Poland, upped exports so that more dollars worth of goods have already been delivered so far this year than were...
...fact, Charles Malik, flying to the U.S., announced that he had been charged by his Chief of State, "in agreement with King Saud, to intervene during my visit to Washington with President Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles to obtain assurances that the U.S. will not use force in Syria." In Iraq, the only Arab nation formally connected by pact to the West, the controlled press took up the cry, as Baghdad's Al Akhbar warned that the U.S. would commit "the most serious blunder" if it treated Syria as hostile to its neighbors...
...found a lively response to whispering campaigns against the threat of Protestantism. Conservative Party Dictator Gómez was convinced that all Protestants were members of the Liberal Party and hence his mortal enemies. Just before Gómez was overthrown by Rojas in 1953, his government signed an agreement with the Vatican cutting two-thirds of the country into 18 mission territories in which only Catholic churches and schools could operate. Rojas carried on where his predecessor left off, suggesting that Protestants and Communists were indistinguishable from one another and shutting down close to 30 Protestant churches...
Reduced to agreement by a "most persuasive" letter from Amateur Painter Dwight D. Eisenhower, Amateur Painter Winston Churchill will permit 30 of his paintings (landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, interiors of famed houses) to be shown publicly early next year in a tour of U.S. cities for his first one-man show after 35 years at his favorite pastime...